A3400 and a mysterious label...

[starf81]

Hello!

Have you ever heard something about the A3400 project??

Some years ago a friend of mine has gifted to me his A2000. It had a nice configuration but a particular label on the bezel catched my eyes. It reports "Commodore A3400" with the same style of C= A1200 labels.
Unfortunately he didn't remember how he found that label.
Here is a scan:



Looking into the amiga-hardware archive, I've discovered that the A3400 should have been an early project name for what eventually became the A4000.
My label looks exactly like the one in this picture.

Do you know how many and if these babies are around?
It is an interesting story. I've never heard anything about this Amiga version and since I own the label, I'd like to know more about it.
Just to understand what is this label that has arrived to me... :-)

Ciao!
Alex

[starf81]

Yes, I'm saying this!
But I don't think that A2000 had originally the A3400 label. Simply the friend who gifted to me the A2000 has attached that label on the bezel of his Amiga.

But I'd really like to know how and where he found the A3400 label :-)

Alex

[starf81]

I asked him when he gave me his A2000 but he didn't remember. However I'll try to ask you again!

Imagine if he owns also the A3400 prototype...  :-D

Alex

[starf81]

What are you insinuating... ?

[starf81]

The scan is still there, I can see it.
Try to refresh the page...

[starf81]

Oh, you're right... now it seems gone!  :-o
But... after 2 or 3 refreshes it has appeared again.
It's a really strange behaviuor.

However, try these links:

LINK 1
LINK 2

These should work... let me know!
Alex

[starf81]

murple wrote:
Its possible that its real and that Commodore produced a label thats not perfectly aligned, and that Photoshop was just used to crop the photo.

... and it is exactly what happens.
I've used my Epson scanner to acquire the label and after I've cropped and resized the picture with Photoshop CS3.
Obviously it is 100% genuine!

You have to ask to Commodore designers why numbers are not aligned  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Alex

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mingle wrote:
Hmm, I've never heard much about the 3400, but from your photos it looks infinitely better than the ugly old A4000!

I remember when the A4000 first came out, how disappointed I was that it looked like a very cheap and nasty (and UGLY!) PC.

Why did they put the floppy drive there? :-)

The A3400 on the other hand is a very smart and distinctive looking system... If only...

I agree!
The A3400 looks a full of personality computer, like Amiga computers used to be!
I don't like the A4000 and this is the reason why I still use the A3000 as my main system even if it lacks of AGA chipset.

I don't mind to find today one of the A3400 prototypes...  :-D

Alex

[starf81]

gdanko wrote:
Aside from collectibility they weren't so usable.

http://www.amigau.com/aig/a3200.html

Very interesting!
So, if A3400 computers were not 100% working, they had to be in a very primordial development state. This should means that very few machines were built.

I'd really like to know how my friend got the label that now I own!!!

gdanko, just a question about your A3500: does it works like a "final" Amiga or even that has some hardware bugs?

It seems that some people still can't see the scan I've added in the discussion.
I've added that image to the amiga.org gallery, too. So, if you need, you'll can try also  THIS LINK.

Alex